RE: A really hard question on Satan and deception.
November 2, 2011 at 3:34 pm
(This post was last modified: November 2, 2011 at 3:36 pm by Greatest I am.)
(November 2, 2011 at 3:24 pm)Godschild Wrote:(November 1, 2011 at 6:12 pm)IATIA Wrote:(October 30, 2011 at 3:50 pm)Godschild Wrote: She knew it was wrong and she did it anyway. Adam knew it was wrong but listened to his wife instead of God. They broke the fellowship and brought death into the world. They reaped what they sowed.
How did Adam and Eve know it was wrong if they had no concept of good and evil until they ate of the tree?
How can they be faulted for not knowing (not having the 'knowledge') of right and wrong. One cannot commit a sin without the knowledge that it is a sin.
They knew the difference between what was right and wrong, God told them not to eat of the tree or there would be consequences (death) to disobeying God. Adam said this to Eve and Eve said this to the serpent, they gave proof they knew it was wrong and to know what is wrong is to know what is right. If you cared to read and study the account given in scripture and then reason just a little you like the children in my church would understand. Knowing what is right and wrong doesn't mean that they knew good from evil. A child knows when it's told not to touch something that it would be wrong to touch said thing, that in no way means they know what is good and evil. Thank God for the innocents of small children that we as adults can see a glimpse of what God's plan for His creation was and how this world could have been.
Do you find it strange that the talking snake gave A & E more information than God did?
God did not give them full disclosure. A lie of omission.
Nothing of their eyes being opened, a good thing, nothing of becoming like God, a good thing, nothing of the other consequences except for a dying that did not happen. A lie.
Stay blind and deceived.
No wonder then that the writers of the story, the Jews, who have more authority in Genesis than Christians, saw Eden as our elevation and not the fall that Christianity has tried to profit from.
Regards
DL
